Chapter 752

Selene nodded, her eyes thoughtful.

“She is.”

“What happened to her if you don’t mind me asking?”

“Honestly, we aren’t sure,” Selene said as she started towards the corridor. I followed after her. “It happened shortly after Lila’s birth. She used to be so vocal… her voice was the most soothing thing I had ever heard. But then she just stopped…”

“And you never figured out why?” I didn’t mean for my tone to sound accusatory, and I wished I could swallow it back down. Selene didn’t seem to take any offence over it, though.

She just shook her head, a sad expression on her face.

“We tried all we could… eventually, it learned to live with the new normal,” she explained. “Come on… let me show you around further so we can give the men some time to talk further.”

I glanced over my shoulder at the closed dining hall door. Biting my lip, I nodded and followed Selene

further away.

Gavin’s POV

the others, but it didn’t feel any lighter. If anything, the silence pressed harder now that I was alone with Zachary Backwell. The man hadn’t moved from his seat at the head

I suppose it was.

out by now,” Zachary said at last, his voice calm, almost conversational. “He never had much patience for


I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt before I make my judgments. He always said that would be one downfall one day, and it made me wonder at this moment if he was right.

a good thing you didn’t invite him

earned a slight

have been off the radar for a long time, but I wasn’t living under a rock. I had been keeping updates on you, and you’ve built quite a reputation. You’ve taken the Landry

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and all without the help of

of my father with a man

to the point,” I said, my voice coming

back in his chair, studying

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but I’m not going ot complain now that it’s back in our family. I know it wasn’t your fault as to how it ended up in your family. You were a teenager when it happened. The feud that formed between

sure if I could trust him, but his words were


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